Nightime Urban Action | In a 1/15-second pan shot, a pair of BNSF GE engines lead a train of autorack cars west past Union Station in Kansas City, MO on a cool Saturday, February 3, 2024 ev... (more)

Tumbledown Vantage | Rolling through the West Bottoms neighborhood of Kansas City, MO, a Union Pacific manifest train heads east past a run-down disused building on a rainy Saturday, Februa... (more)

Urban Lifesaver | Passing through a derelict area of inner-city Kansas City, MO, Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver unit leads the eastbound Southwest Chief. Having just departed KC Union Station... (more)

Catching Some Z's | Just past 7 in the morning on a cool Saturday, February 3, 2024, the city of Kansas City, MO is just waking up while a westbound BNSF Z train cruises through town.

BNSF 6840 leads a train of pigs and stack over the Missouri River.

Rio Grande and Missouri Pacific locomotives rest beneath the large grain elevator at Kansas City Southern’s Knoche Yard in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 8, 1985. Rio Grande utilized the KCS... (more)

KCS 2819 works the west end of CPKC Knoche Yard in Kansas City.

KCS 2819 works the west end of CPKC Knoche Yard in Kansas City.

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train, with a pair of Santa Fe GP7u locomotives (ATSF 2183 and 2124), brings six office cars of varying heritage through Santa Fe Junction and across the state line ... (more)

With deadheading Metrolink cars up front, the Chief departs Kansas City with its sights set on Chicago.

BNSF 9297 wears BNSF's initial experimental "Heritage" orange and green paint scheme. It featured a solid 3" red pinstripe that separated the orange and Brunswick green along the right carbody... (more)

A fresh repaint leads a eastbound stack into Downtown Kc.

BNSF 9647 was delivered with the Santa Fe warbonnet and in BN Executive colors to celebrate the approval of the BNSF merger on July 20, 1995. The colors on the 9647 were not adopted by BNSF as a... (more)

Up 7137 takes a freight westbound meanwhile an eastbound coal load rolls through town.

Sometime in the late 1960s a couple of units in the original "Southern Belle" scheme share duties. KCS 25 was a "rebuild" of an E6A which had apparently been wrecked. As I un... (more)